Objective
"This proposal investigates the origin of three evolvable systems in biological evolution. The first pillar deals with early evolution/origin of life. It is the heaviest part of the proposal, with a strong experimental participation of a co-PI. We shall invetiage how genes, metabolism and membranes could have evolved to yield the first living cells. Intermediate stages will be proposed, modelled and when possible experimentally tested by a combination of molecular biology, in vitro compartmentation and microfluidics. The second pillar theoretically investigates the origin of the adaptive immune system as a within-organism evolvable system. The third pillar investigates how informational replication and natural selection could be rendered within evolved brains, in order to better understand how reinforcement learning, insight and language emergence work durig individual development."
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences physical sciences classical mechanics fluid mechanics microfluidics
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence machine learning reinforcement learning
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology
- natural sciences biological sciences molecular biology
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Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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ERC-2011-ADG_20110310
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Host institution
82343 Pocking
Germany
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